Streaking Thunder head to Denver

(Sports Network) - The Oklahoma City Thunder have won six in a row, but will
face a stern test on Sunday night when they visit the Denver Nuggets at the
Pepsi Center.

Oklahoma City has the NBA's best winning percentage at .800.

The Thunder have the second-most road wins in the NBA and this is the second
contest of a six-game road trip. The excursion got off to a great start with a
117-114 overtime victory over the Dallas Mavericks, the Thunder's fourth
consecutive road win.

Kevin Durant went off for a career-high 52 points in an incredible effort. He
only shot 13-for-31 from the field, but went 5-for-9 from long distance.
Perhaps the most impressive stat from Durant's amazing night was that he went
21-for-21 from the free-throw line, which was the second-best foul-shooting
night in NBA history behind Dominique Wilkins' 23-for-23 night in 1992.

"I just kept fighting and kept believing in myself," Durant said. "My
teammates gave me confidence. It's more about the win for me. I was excited at
the way we played. We just kept fighting and we got a good win on the road."

Russell Westbrook chipped in 31 points. He and Durant combined for 83 points
and what's scary is, that's only the third-highest output from the duo. The
pair went off for 91 points on Feb. 19, 2012.

It was just Wednesday when the Thunder topped the Denver Nuggets in Oklahoma
City, 117-97. On that night, Durant, Westbrook and Martin tallied 72 points
and the Thunder held the Nuggets to 13.3 percent shooting from beyond the arc.

The Nuggets have lost two straight, started by the Thunder setback. On Friday,
Denver fell, at home, to the Washington Wizards, the team with the worst
record in the NBA.

"The personality of the game is very similar to Minnesota, Orlando, Cleveland,
and Golden State," Nuggets coach George Karl said, rattling off the team's
disappointing losses this season. "All those games had similar personalities
of not having enough effort, not having enough serious basketball."

Ty Lawson led the Nuggets with 29 points. The next highest totals came from
bench players Corey Brewer and Andre Miller, who netted 17 points apiece.
Danilo Gallinari and Kenneth Faried also cracked the 10-point plateau.

The Nuggets only had one day off to get the awful taste of losing at home to
the Wizards out of their collective mouth. The worst team in the league heads
out and the best team in the league comes into town.

"We're definitely disappointed," Lawson said after Friday night's demoralizing
loss. "It was pretty quiet in here. We have a film session to figure out the
things we're doing wrong. Hopefully we have a good showing against OKC on
Sunday."

Oklahoma City has won five of the last six in this series and two straight in
Denver. The Nuggets captured seven in a row at home before the two most recent
Thunder wins.